Thursday, May 4, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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May Day, Castro - Communism
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
Aptly enough, it was on May Day that Fidel Castro chose to wipe out whatever hope remained for the survival of Democratic freedoms in Cuba.
Elections, the instrument by which a free people freely choose their leaders, will not be held in Cuba henceforth, he said.
Basking in the pleasing glow of Moscow's smile, he proclaimed Cuba the first socialist (Communist) state in the Western hemisphere.
THIS WAS THE same Castro who from his rebel hideout in the Sierra Maestre of Oriente Province three years ago demanded that Fulgencio Batista permit free elections under supervision of the Organization of American States (OAS).
—"I have said very clearly that we are not Communists."
And it was the same Castro who on April 17, 1959, told the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington:
—Cuba has no intention of abrogating the agreement under which the United States maintains a naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
—Cuba will not confiscate foreign private industry.
Now the promise of free elections has gone the way of other Castro promises.
HIS GOVERNMENT has seized more than one and a half billion dollars worth of United States-owned property.
And he has announced that Cuba will retake Guantanamo, legally.
And he has announced that Cuba will retake Guantanamo, legally. Appropriately, too, it was on May Day, adopted by godless Communism as its official holiday that Castro chose to intensify his war against the Roman Catholic Church. Foreign priests will be barred from the island and Catholic schools will be nationalized. Only one more step was needed, it seemed, to inaugurate the Communist system of state priests whereby the Communists have sought to stifle the Church behind the Iron Curtain.
FOR THE UNITED States, it was a bitter reminder of an attempt that failed and of the necessity now of making new plans to carry out its pledge that Communism will not be tolerated in this hemisphere.
For Castro, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize, it was a moment of special triumph.
With U. S. armed intervention ruled out, diplomacy remained.
A small hope, with many "ifs," rested with the Organization of American States.
If the United States could obtain a two-thirds majority it could:
Ask for an economic embargo of the Castro regime.
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Revive the hemispheric political defense committee to combat Castro agents.
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United action on the more stringent measures would be much more difficult.
The vote was 12 to 1 (Cuba) with Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, and Venezuela abstaining and Brazil reserving its vote.
PARSONS JEWELRY 725 Mass. VI 3-4731 An Important Day to Remember
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.—Oscar Wilde
THE FIRST "IFS" loomed large. In late April the Inter-American Defense Board, composed of military representatives of the 21 American republics, voted to bar the Cuban representative from all secret sessions of the board and to deny him access to hemispheric defense plans.
What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expect generally happens.—Benjamin Disraeli
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